Billionaire Sir Tom Hunter donates £1m to Radio 2’s Children In Require charity auction
The Scottish tycoon states the definition of kindness is to ‘help folks you’ve never ever met’ 
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Scotland’s very first house-grown billionaire Sir Tom Hunter has put his money where his mouth is and produced a £1m donation to the radio presenter Chris Evans’ Young children in Require marketing campaign.
The serial entrepreneur supplied to match all the top donations raised for Chris Evans’ Young children in Want Auction Packages , which integrated a luxurious crack in Monaco, a golfing excursion and the opportunity to drive a Ferrari.
Showing on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2 this morning, Sir Tom mentioned he would round the whole up to £1m.
He quoted his father, who after informed him: “The definition of actual kindness is to help an individual you will never fulfill.”
Sir Tom, who initial manufactured his fortune selling retail brand Sporting activities Division to JJB Sporting activities for £290m in 1998, is now a serial investor and assists a quantity of brings about by way of the Tom Hunter Foundation.
Previous year the foundation gained the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, an award which recognises those who use their personal prosperity for public good.
The entrepreneur said it was a privilege to donate to Young children in Want but stated appearing on the radio was “a little bit awkward”.
The Hunter Foundation’s spokesperson Ewan Hunter stated the organisation has an existing partnership with Kids in Need by means of an initative named Positive Places, which aims to stop younger people from turning out to be NEET (not in schooling employment or training).
“This will renew that partnership but we nonetheless have to concur exactly where the cash will be applied this time,” he extra.
Naughty @achrisevans – you must have issued a mascara warning for Sir Tom Hunter. What a wonderful man. http://t.co/mWrufKj11q
— Clark Hearsey (@ClarkHearsey) November thirteen, 2014
Sir Tom Hunter is the Tartan Knight. What an complete legend!
— Hack258 (@Hack258) November 13, 2014